"Person here wishes to see you particularly." "A person!" Laverick repeated.

"Man or woman ?" "Man, sir.
"Better send him up," Laverick ordered.
"He's a seedy-looking lot, sir," the porter explained "I told him that I scarcely thought you'd see him." "Never mind," Laverick answered.

"I can soon get rid of the fellow if he's cadging." He went back to his room and finished fastening his tie.

His own affairs had sunk a little into the background lately, but the announcement of this unusual visitor brought them back into his mind with a rush.

Notwithstanding his iron nerves, his fingers shook as he drew on his dinner-jacket and walked out to the passageway to answer the bell which rang a few seconds later.